Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Pre-Sessional Working Group, 22-26 November 2010

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Secretary, Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
UNOG-OHCHR
1211 Geneva
Switzerland

Consideration of State Reports

The Committee will consider the following State reports during the session:

Note: Schedules are subject to change at short notice

States examined	State Reports and Core documents	Previous Concluding observations	List of Issues	Information from other sources**
CAMEROON	Second and Third periodic reports E/C.12/CMR/2-3 A | C | E | F | R | S HRI/CORE/ E | F | R | S	E | F | R | S	E/C.12/CMR/Q/2-3 E | F | R | S	International Disability Alliance (IDA)
ESTONIA	Second periodic report E/C.12/EST/2 C | E | F | R | S and Corr.1 E only HRI/CORE/ E | F | R | S		E/C.12/EST/Q/2 E | F | R | S	International Disability Alliance (IDA)
GERMANY	Fifth periodic report E/C.12/DEU/5 E | F | R | S | C HRI/CORE/ E | F | R | S	E | F | R | S	E/C.12/DEU/Q/5 E | F | R | S	Alliance for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Germany Campaign Transsexuality and Human Rights FIAN Federal Organisation of (ex)Users and Survivors of Psychiatry in Germany Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment International Disability Alliance (IDA) Sex-Worker Forum of Vienna Association of Intersexual People/XY-Women
ISRAEL	Third periodic report E/C.12/ISR/3 C | E | F | R | S HRI/CORE/ISR/2008 E | F | R | S		E/C.12/ISR/Q/3 E | F | R | S	Center for Constitutional Rights 1, 2 and Add.1 Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) International Disability Alliance (IDA) PCHR Amnesty International Physicians for Human Rights – Israel (PHR-ISRAEL) Al-Haq and the Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel 1-2 BADIL Resource Center Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality
TURKMENISTAN	First periodic report E/C.12/TKM/1 E | F | R | S HRI/CORE/TKM/2009 E | F | R | S	E | F | R | S	E/C.12/TKM/Q/1 E | F | R | S

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